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I liked the characters of Shaw and Valentine and enjoyed the mystery and the vivid settings. . My library did not have the first book in the series but I had no problem picking up the threads of the previous stories and enjoying this book on its own. . DCI Peter Shaw is called to investigate a suspicious death in a hospital. I am truly impressed by this podcast! He uncovers a complex web of crime with links to the past. that said, I would like to read further in the series and see how it goes.Yes, this book is long and detailed, but if you like British mystery you know they don't often investigate just one murder or case at a time. 0312644906 I have maintained that I can read (and enjoy) anything if it is well-written enough. Time:  23:40  File Size: 16.3mb Sorry to keep harping on this, but I would love it if you could buy a really cool new anthology:  DIGITAL RAPTURE, THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY  edited John Kessel and ... well ... me. I've been published a lot.

that said, I Most of the way through, I thought this was going to be a four-star book. Everything he writes is fun, entertaining, intelligent and wonderfully weird.Let's just say I opened up the first podcast to "see" if it was something that could keep my attention and found myself sitting entranced for nearly an hour. Jim Kelly is a journalist and education correspondent for the Financial Times. It is an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable example of the so-called clue-led English type of detective novel.Norma Jean Judd disappears in 1992 and she is never found either dead or alive. How much better to reflect real life in crime fiction. My library did not have the first book in the series but I had no problem picking up the threads of the previous stories and enjoying this book on its own.

Time:  21:37 File size: 14.9mbWe are getting very near the end of "The Wreck of the Godspeed" here with Part Six. Interesting characters.

In the end it all wraps up, but leaves one case open -I'm thinking for book two. Explore books by Jim Kelly with our selection at Waterstones.com. At times during the current case, they do not keep each other fully informed.This was a very unpleasant read. I have maintained that I can read (and enjoy) anything if it is well-written enough.

But a mere Frankenweather event isn't going to keep me from bringing you Part Two of Lovestory, which was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. I\'m not talking here about in fiction, but in public life. Welcome to Fantastic Fiction Search and browse bibliographies of over 50,000 bestselling fiction authors, with the latest books and series information Join our 99,999 members. Valentine was demoted to Sergeant and posted to the far North.

With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was ... Born: May 5, 1946 Died: June 29, 2013 (age 67) DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine must try and unravel the strange circumstances in which Bryan met his death and in the process try and understand what is going on in Erebus Street where he has lived all his life.Book 2 in the Valentine and Shaw series. Eighteen years later, to the day, Bryan himself is found dead in gruesome circumstances. It had a great premise and the two lead detectives have an interesting back story.I like this series quite a bit. Decent read.Jim Kelly is a journalist and education correspondent for the Financial Times.

This book was a gritty, gruesome, grim look at dysfunctional families, homelessness, child murder, suicide and illegal human organ transplants, etc., etc!This was a very unpleasant read. Peter Shaw is not quite sure if his father planted the evidence or not. This one is a little different: it's all aliens, all the time. May 25th 2010 He's been ordered not to keep tryiDeath Watch by Jim Kelly is the 2nd book of the DS George Valentine & DI Peter Shaw police procedural mystery series set in late 20th-century Norfolk coast of England. It was first published in the Science Fiction Book Club anthology called BETWEEN WORLDS edited by Robert Silverberg and was the title story of my collection THE WRECK OF THE GODSPEED which you should all run out and buy right this minute without fail! It started out interestingly enough, but really bogged down for me in the middle. They were a successful team until one case in which they were accused of planting evidence. Jim Kelly has a lovely cadence to his prose and a rich and mellow timbre to his voice whist reading. Say the novels and short stories that await you on Audible.com? From the very beginning everything was a mystery, where was it going? . "Ever since the days of Agatha Christie, the great divide in the British detective story has been between plot and character...The novels of Jim Kelly are.

After really enjoying "Death Wore White," I was eager to get onto the next book in this series. Instead of broken or strained family relationships, the ongoing back-story involves Shaw's attempts to prove that his father was not guilty of planting evidence in his last case, the one that lead to his early retirement and premature death. Not a bad book, but getting to the solution seemed overcomplicated, and I became bored with the subplot of Shaw trying to solve an old case of his father's, which had begun in the first book. Time: 21:04  File Size: 14.5mbCongratulations! I stand corrected. The unsolved case that haunted Valentine and Jack Shaw continues to have ramifications for the younger Shaw and his uneasy professional relationship with Valentine. DI Jack Shaw resigned in shame;. Time:  26:51 File Size: 18.5mb I'm off for a short vacation to the lovely (cold) state of Maine, so Free Reads may be late again next week. We seem to think that only good people can do good things, and bad people bad things. Welcome back. Published